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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
However you sensed I do Not care baffles me.
Maybe your a math provost with some proofs?
Let's sit down somewhere and drink ginger ale?
If I were Judge, I'd bang Tootsie Role as gavel.
However you sensed I do Not care baffles me.
Maybe your a math provost with some proofs?
Let's sit down somewhere and drink ginger ale?
There was yet another Arab Israeli 'honor' killing yesterday:
A 15-year old Israeli Arab Muslim from the city of Kalansawa has admitted to murdering his 20-year-old sister. The teen said he stabbed his sister on Monday morning in a so-called “honor killing”--a killing in which the victim is accused of tarnishing family honor by violating the tenets of Islam or flouting cultural norms.
The teen and his sister fought on Sunday night. The 15-year-old strongly objected to his sister's expressed wish to leave the home more often and purchase a cell phone.
The murder took place the next morning, as the sister slept in her bed. The parents, who were out of the house at the time, returned home to discover her body.
Police were called to the scene, and found the brother covered in blood. “I murdered my sister,” he told them. The youth was arrested. His remand was extended on Monday evening.
The murder is hardly the first of its kind to take place in Israel. Several young Israeli Muslim women have been murdered in recent years for allegedly dishonoring their families.
Police believe the previous victim was 16-year-old Dalia Abu-Ghanem, who was reported missing in December of last year. The teen was allegedly murdered for leaving her abusive husband. Eight other women belonging to the 2,000-member Abu-Ghanem clan have been murdered by their male relatives in the past decade.
Let's say a terrorist was in a mall, would the police be allowed to blow up the mall killing hundreds of civilians? Would we call this terrorism? (probably we would).
Having said that I don't accept the analogy that Israel is the "police". It simply is a criminal state created through the ethnic cleansing of another people. It has always relied on extreme violence to pursue its goals.
BTW even though it is irrelevant to this discussion, I would like to point out the Zionists' terrorism started long before Hamas came into existence. Yad Vashem is built over what used to be the peaceful Palestinian village of Deir Yassin whose inhabitants were brutally murdered by the Irgun terrorist gang in 1948 (the same terrorist gang that Rahm Emmanuel's father was a member of). This massacre, as Menachem Begin pointed out, was engineered to cause the Palestinian Arabs to flee (thus creating a "pure" Jewish state).
Unlike all the pro terrorism let's exterminate the Jews rallies that have been going on, here's a rally that actually proposes Peace.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054494.html
This is why 'dialog' with terrorist sympathizers is a complete waste of time. Might as well be trying to teach your dog to fly.
Quite awhile back I sent an email to my senator Russ Feingold asking him to make use of his special ability to speak out without being branded an anti-Semite. Russ is usually very responsive, but I have not heard back from him. I like Russ Feingold and believe him to be considerably braver and more decent than most. However on this subject even he seems to be unable to speak out.
A few nights ago on the ABC evening news a report on Gaza stated that there had been over 800 Israeli and Palestinian deaths in this latest assault. It was so striking that there was no breakdown of those deaths allowed.
The elephant in the room is of course that we allowed Israel to develop nuclear capability while insisting that the Iranians and Arab nations are too barbaric to be trusted with such power. It seems that mentioning that Israel has the bomb is still forbidden within the US media.
Many years ago in an ecumenical church visitation I asked the local Rabbi how he could support Israel as a war-like state. The rabbi’s answer was that the US was his Israel and Manitowoc, Wisconsin was his Jerusalem. It was all symbolic to him. What a different world we might have if all Jews felt that way.
Most of us in the US think of the Crusades as ancient history. It doesn’t take a lot of empathy to understand how the Arab world might see the present battle as simply a modern continuation of them.
Israel supporters in their rallies try to justify the murder of Palestinian civilians. Anyone who wants peace should call for the brutal attack on Gaza to stop.
Israel could take a giant step in the right direction by rolling back its illegal settlements, ending the blockade of Gaza, and having serious negotiations with Hamas.
David, Israel did just that a few years ago when we left Gaza. We removed all troops, dismantled the settlements, and even left tremendous hothouses which we had built so that there would be an immediate source of exports for the Gazans. We left Gaza with land borders under Egyptian and Palestinian Authority control. True, we patrolled the sea & air, but that was only because they had been used by Arafat & Co. to smuggle in massive amounts of weapons. But if the terror had stopped, there would have been no reason not to open them also.
What happened? Hamas opened fire on Fatah. Palestinians destroyed the hothouses. And the rocket fire, which had started years before, intensified.
In short, your plan and mine (I was *for* it) failed big-time.
So, we're left with negotiations with the PA, and rocket fire from Hamas, who explicitly and adamantly refuse on principle to negotiate (read their charter).
So, David, what's your plan now?
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To cope, and not break down with grief's pain and Fear... Oh never mind... It's not worth explanation? Carry on... but,
When in war drafted grunts, and there were a few Jewish troops drafted too, we'd crawl from out of a wet poncho-liner. The same G.I. issued blanket that we lifted dead GI's up-off from
the jungle floor. A human is heavy when bloody red, and dead. We'd still carry the dead GI to be hauled to a Red Cross chopper.
Often we'd sing in lieu of a bawl.
Someone would ease Grief & sing.
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'This will be the day that we all die.
`So, and sings:' When they say: huh.
`'Um for Peace and Safety? Then:`Woe.
`In scripture: `Sudden destruction visits.
Not all who say they are peaceful have looked within.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
